Farfelu's Journal, 22 August 2013

I really put the 5:2 to the test this past week. Mexican food out with chips and beer, Chinese food out (the fattening kind) My son brought home all kinds of junk like Cheetos which I love and I ate as much as I wanted. I made garlic mashed potatoes with butter and cream cheese to go with the meatloaf I made. I made pot roast and put potatoes in it and made gravy. It was like amazing after years of avoiding all that stuff as much as possible, and STILL being overweight. But on Monday and Wednesday I didn't exceed my 500 calories. Before the 5:2 that kind of eating would have put a 5 pound gain on me. This week's weigh-in has me the same as last week - after all that food I chowed down on. This week I am going to try to tone it down a bit. I don't want to use the 5:2 as an excuse for binge-ing. I want to eat for the long term for optimal health. I think I will go back to journaling my food in order to track the difference with more evidence. Even though my weight is the same I feel my body making some adjustments in distribution as it gets accustomed to the new weight. My stomach feels firmer every day as old fat store are being re-distributed back to my upper body. If I stay here for several weeks even though my weight will be constant, my body will keep adjusting and changing making it more difficult for it to remember the old set points. If I can get it to think of this weight as the set point, who knows? Maybe I can go with just one fast day a week. But I still want all the anti-aging benefits of the fast, so I might research to see if it is possible.